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Rosalyn Drexler : who does she think she is? /

"Rosalyn Drexler has always moved between worlds. In the late 1950s and early '60s, she showed sculpture at New York Reuben Gallery, a gathering place for artists like Allan Kaprow and Claes Oldenburg who combined installation and performance with traditional media. Drexler took part in Ha...

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Main Authors: Drexler, Rosalyn
Corporate Authors: Rose Art Museum; Albright-Knox Art Gallery
Group Author: Siegel, Katy; Als, Hilton; Lethem, Jonathan; Drexler, Rosalyn.
Published: Gregory R. Miller & Co. ,
Publisher Address: New York, NY :
Publication Dates: 2016.
Literature type: Book
Language: English
Subjects:
Drexler, Rosalyn > Exhibitions
Drexler, Rosalyn > Written works
Art, American > 20th century
Performance art > 20th century
Painting, American > 20th century
Collage > 20th century
Sculpture, American > 20th century
Feminism in art
Arts, American > 20th century > Exhibitions
Boxers Sports > In art
Violence in art
Summary: "Rosalyn Drexler has always moved between worlds. In the late 1950s and early '60s, she showed sculpture at New York Reuben Gallery, a gathering place for artists like Allan Kaprow and Claes Oldenburg who combined installation and performance with traditional media. Drexler took part in Happenings at Reuben Gallery and at Judson Church (years after her own quasi-performance as a female wrestler, memorialized by Andy Warhol in the 1962 series Album of a Mat Queen). Drexler collages and large-format paintings of the 1960s open the category of Pop art to technology and politics in a way that fe
Item Description: Published on the occasion of the exhibition held at the Rose Art Museum (February 12-June 5, 2016) and the Albright Knox Art Gallery (October 22, 2016-February 19, 2017).
Carrier Form: 238 pages : illustrations (chiefly color), portraits ; 28 cm
Bibliography: Includes bibliographical references (pages 223-231) and index.
ISBN: 9781941366097
1941366090
Index Number: N6537
CLC: J231(712)-28
Call Number: J231(712)-28/D777
Contents: Who does she think she is? / Katy Siegel -- Lost and found / Caitlin Julia Rubin -- Gangster's paradise: Rosalyn Drexler and immigrant culture / Michael Lobel -- Rosalyn Drexler: madly and transgressively embracing the vulgarity of life / Kalliopi Minioudaki -- Five run-ins with Rosalyn Drexler / Jonathan Lethem -- In and out of the ring: Rosalyn Drexler's boxers and the intimacy of violence / Allison Unruh -- Rosalyn Drexler's theater of the domestic grotesque / Stephen Bottoms -- Images / Hilton Als -- Excerpts of novels and plays / Rosalyn Drexler.

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